The internet was designed with reliability in mind , it's meant to route around disasters ( read : nuclear attack ) to keep communication lines up.
If it were designed with security in mind we wouldn't have to bolt - on such additions as SSL or certificates. These are meant to work around the problems that we face now.
Admittedly these wouldn't be such a problem on a purely military network , where every machine has a static IP and a known owner. But that's not the world we live in , is it ?
The internet wasn't designed with security in mind , but these new 3G/4G phones can be. Isn't this a chance to do things right , rather than repeat the design oversights of the past?
I doubt this has any affect there at all. The language has changed , but that only changes the way that one accesses the Blender API. It's not like it breaks everything...
At my place of work there's a *lot* of sawdust blowing around , gathering in corners, piling on objects. After having several computers give up and die the foreman came up with an interesting idea:
build a plexiglass case around the PC itself with several industrial fans and filters of the sort used in large electrical enclosures.
Easily replaced without issue , filters are easily changed and they're a standard type to everything else around there. Plus you don't ever have to cut your case up.
Small range increases mean BIGGER area increases
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Remember your high-school geometry , area of a circle is pi(r^2)
So the 6% ( ? ) increase in range translates to a more than 12% increase in coverage area. It's not as small as first it appears.
Reducing costs increases availability
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If this adsl2 and adsl2+ are implemented it'll give both lower costs ( lesser power requirements ) and greater flexibility to the providers. That's good for both the companies and the consumers , as lower costs give them the opportunity to expand into less affluent / easy to serve areas.
Plus the ability to provide faster service to closer customers , and the ability to bond channels together to get higher bandwidth for business customers... well heck , who needs a T-1 when you can get superior bandwidth for less ?
I for one am excited that the technology is maturing.
This technique is meant to be a fast ( real time ? ) method of viewing medical data , like watching a CAT scan as it's happening. It's *not* attractive , it has no textures , it doesn't render the organs with all their colour or bump maps. What it *does* do is give the surgeon an immediate source of information on the status of the patient's condition. Very interesting stuff , good application of a technique to a real need. But it's not anything to do with Id. It *won't* make Quake 4 any faster.
As most people know , including most Slashdotters ( I hope ) , 3D doesn't begin and end with Video Games. Other things use the technologies too.
Take PC's , they used to be called IBM compatibles. But now they're just so DAMNED handy and ubiquitous that now nobody REALLY cares what the brand is.
I remember way back in the 2.0.x days , I tried enabling SMP support on a dual P150 machine. This was when doing so entailed editing the makefile by hand.
Well , I apparently did something wrong , because on booting my shiny new SMP enabled kernel I got the error message,
"This should never happen. You must have done something extraordinarily stupid. I suggest you fix it."
Oddly enough , that day I considered myself honoured.
X on a PDA may not be the most efficient thing , nor even the most appropriate thing. But then, is working to make your Dreamcast boot NetBSD efficient ?
Of course this is off topic , but for hobbyists who want to screw with their hardware with standard utilities like X , then finding an appropriate / useable window manager would be an issue. WindowMaker just *wouldn't* do the trick , as nice as it is.
Funny , in retrospect I would have expected to be one of those promoting this as a nice tool for those using their PDA's in non-standard ways. Oh well.
Don't get me wrong , I'm all for X on a desktop. But where in these devices is there a need for remote displays ?
Sure you can argue that this feature would be ideal for low-resource machines , but that's just not how they're designed. Better to use a custom gui , even based on the framebuffer device ( if we're talking a linux device ).
And for very small screen devices ( palms , watches ) the idea of windows and window borders seem wasteful. You only have what , 320x200 pixels , don't waste 5 per edge on borders.
From the screenshots Matchbox doesn't appear to have these problems of wasting screen space ( I am not a User Interface designer ) , but still... X ? On a PDA ? Or watch ?
Up here in the Cold North we're often told that the hot water heater is the single biggest user of electricity ( or gas, depending ).
Consequently we've become fairly proficient at saving hot water. Energy saving shower heads ( gives the same pressure with less water ), insulating blankets around the water tank, and even a timer to turn off the tank when you won't want any more hot water ( 8pm say ) and back on in time to have hot water for your shower ( 5am? ). You could be more clever with your own schedule, but these are all inexpensive and easy to do.
I recall something similar within the past few years, a split-keyboard that was able to be placed at or nearly vertical.
The difference with THAT one was that the split was a hinge and the far sides of the keyboard were then attached with a belt, making the keyboard rigid ( the force of gravity and typing pulling the belt tight ) . This had the advantage of making the keyboard angle variable, so you could set it to your own preference.
I always thought that would be nice, being able to type with my hands at a 45 degree angle ( or so ) . I don't know if being forced to 90 degrees would agree with me.
Mac people use / like / love their machines not for the OS it runs, they do so for the applications they can use and the interface they've grown used to.
If they can get that AND proper multitasking and memory management, well then they'll be happy as... as very happy people!
Unless Linux were to gain greater application support, MacOS X will rule the Mac world. Especially if they straighten out the Aqua interface ( some people long for their old desktop )
For supporting large numbers of clients, you can't go wrong with Debian.
After all, you can keep a central store of the software that you need, update it as necessary and have a cron job of apt-get running on each machine. Keep the software syncronized on every machine to a set standard ( with optional bits and pieces of course ). An install would be an easy matter of booting a floppy on the target machine.
Of course, this from someone who is for the first time getting a real handle on Debian... *so* different from OpenBSD, but nice all the same:)
I was *just* now looking on the kernel.ca.org and there's only the prerelease. Of course, now that Slashdot has posted the existence of 2.4.0 I ( with my pitiful dialup connection ) will be unable to get hold of it for DAYS.
Oh well, I wonder if it'll be like the 2.2 release, where 2.2.1 thru 2.2.5 were released in the course of a week... I highly doubt it, but the thought makes me feel better:)
There was a link last year ( I believe? ) to another tough notebook, from a major supplier ( samsung? Toshiba? Bah, I'm getting senile ).
In comparison this is a home workshop project. Sure it's waterproof / resistant, impact resistant, etc, but is it USABLE?
A laptop / notebook has to be , above all, portable and usable. This thing is WAY too big and heavy. Besides, it looks as though it loses most of it's benefit if it's open / being used.
Now if they were releasing plans for doing this to your OWN notebook I'd be all for it. But $4500USD? That's a bit much for a product with no big-name backing. You have to just trust that it works and that the company will be around in 3 months to complain to when it fails.
The entire POINT of this exercise is that it's a BAD IDEA!
A referendum would / will cost $150 million to the Canadian Taxpayer, and in the words of Rick Mercer ( the comedian who came up with the idea ), "Any idiot could get a referendum on his pet issue. I'm just the first idiot."
This is an initial protest to an election promise which, on the face of it, seems quite enlightened and democratic, but which is in fact just a bad idea.
( besides, these are the same guys who convinced the Governor of Iowa that Canada was using a metric 20 hour day, and had him congratulate Canada on "switching to a USA - style 24 hour day" on the air! They tend to be a little over the top, but hey, it's politics! )
After all, you don't expect your laptop to have a 19" screen? Four speaker Dolby (tm) surround sound? In a laptop, you want it to be light, easy to carry, fast *enough* and to have *enough* battery life for your needs.
As has been said in previous articles, many people would be THRILLED with a Pentium 200 based laptop, if only it would have a reasonable battery life. The Crusoe chips appear to give FAR better performance than that, with lower power usage ( gotta love intigrated memory controllers! ).
Who REALLY needs a P-III Coppermine 800 in their laptop? And if you do, don't bitch about battery life, you're getting other benefits.
Celerons DO support smp, it's just that Intel had disabled the feature with some jiggery-foolery. A hack to re-enable it started the move to SMP celerons.
To where now slotket adapters now include circuitry to do the workaround for you.
I don't have anything to say on the subject, but am interested in the effect of non-moderated comments on my karma... does my +1 for registered user count as a +1 moderation? Let's find out, shall we?
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The internet was designed with reliability in mind , it's meant to route around disasters ( read : nuclear attack ) to keep communication lines up.
If it were designed with security in mind we wouldn't have to bolt - on such additions as SSL or certificates. These are meant to work around the problems that we face now.
Admittedly these wouldn't be such a problem on a purely military network , where every machine has a static IP and a known owner. But that's not the world we live in , is it ?
The internet wasn't designed with security in mind , but these new 3G/4G phones can be.
Isn't this a chance to do things right , rather than repeat the design oversights of the past?
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30% Comedy
30% Romance
0% Madonna
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I doubt this has any affect there at all. The language has changed , but that only changes the way that one accesses the Blender API. It's not like it breaks everything ...
build a plexiglass case around the PC itself with several industrial fans and filters of the sort used in large electrical enclosures.
Easily replaced without issue , filters are easily changed and they're a standard type to everything else around there. Plus you don't ever have to cut your case up.
Remember your high-school geometry , area of a circle is pi(r^2)
So the 6% ( ? ) increase in range translates to a more than 12% increase in coverage area. It's not as small as first it appears.
Plus the ability to provide faster service to closer customers , and the ability to bond channels together to get higher bandwidth for business customers ... well heck , who needs a T-1 when you can get superior bandwidth for less ?
I for one am excited that the technology is maturing.
This technique is meant to be a fast ( real time ? ) method of viewing medical data , like watching a CAT scan as it's happening. It's *not* attractive , it has no textures , it doesn't render the organs with all their colour or bump maps. What it *does* do is give the surgeon an immediate source of information on the status of the patient's condition. Very interesting stuff , good application of a technique to a real need. But it's not anything to do with Id. It *won't* make Quake 4 any faster.
As most people know , including most Slashdotters ( I hope ) , 3D doesn't begin and end with Video Games. Other things use the technologies too.
Everything useful eventually becomes brand-less.
Take PC's , they used to be called IBM compatibles. But now they're just so DAMNED handy and ubiquitous that now nobody REALLY cares what the brand is.
Heck yeah , Fujitsu , Tatung , Toshiba just to name a few.
Check out www.sparc.com for lists of members of the Sparc consortium.
I remember way back in the 2.0.x days , I tried enabling SMP support on a dual P150 machine. This was when doing so entailed editing the makefile by hand.
Well , I apparently did something wrong , because on booting my shiny new SMP enabled kernel I got the error message,
"This should never happen. You must have done something extraordinarily stupid. I suggest you fix it."Oddly enough , that day I considered myself honoured.
Ok, I'll have to give you that point.
X on a PDA may not be the most efficient thing , nor even the most appropriate thing. But then, is working to make your Dreamcast boot NetBSD efficient ?
Of course this is off topic , but for hobbyists who want to screw with their hardware with standard utilities like X , then finding an appropriate / useable window manager would be an issue. WindowMaker just *wouldn't* do the trick , as nice as it is.
Funny , in retrospect I would have expected to be one of those promoting this as a nice tool for those using their PDA's in non-standard ways. Oh well.
Don't get me wrong , I'm all for X on a desktop. But where in these devices is there a need for remote displays ?
Sure you can argue that this feature would be ideal for low-resource machines , but that's just not how they're designed. Better to use a custom gui , even based on the framebuffer device ( if we're talking a linux device ).
And for very small screen devices ( palms , watches ) the idea of windows and window borders seem wasteful. You only have what , 320x200 pixels , don't waste 5 per edge on borders.
From the screenshots Matchbox doesn't appear to have these problems of wasting screen space ( I am not a User Interface designer ) , but still ... X ? On a PDA ? Or watch ?
I have to say that CowboyNeal is the single biggest reason that I obsessively check for new Geeks In Space episodes.
I suppose my question then is : Are you that hyperactive normally, or is that your "GIS Face"? I imagine that being CowboyNeal would be exhausting :)
( Hmm, Being CowboyNeal ... I smell sequel! )
Up here in the Cold North we're often told that the hot water heater is the single biggest user of electricity ( or gas, depending ).
Consequently we've become fairly proficient at saving hot water. Energy saving shower heads ( gives the same pressure with less water ), insulating blankets around the water tank, and even a timer to turn off the tank when you won't want any more hot water ( 8pm say ) and back on in time to have hot water for your shower ( 5am? ). You could be more clever with your own schedule, but these are all inexpensive and easy to do.
I recall something similar within the past few years, a split-keyboard that was able to be placed at or nearly vertical.
The difference with THAT one was that the split was a hinge and the far sides of the keyboard were then attached with a belt, making the keyboard rigid ( the force of gravity and typing pulling the belt tight ) . This had the advantage of making the keyboard angle variable, so you could set it to your own preference.
I always thought that would be nice, being able to type with my hands at a 45 degree angle ( or so ) . I don't know if being forced to 90 degrees would agree with me.
Mac people use / like / love their machines not for the OS it runs, they do so for the applications they can use and the interface they've grown used to.
If they can get that AND proper multitasking and memory management, well then they'll be happy as ... as very happy people!
Unless Linux were to gain greater application support, MacOS X will rule the Mac world. Especially if they straighten out the Aqua interface ( some people long for their old desktop )
For supporting large numbers of clients, you can't go wrong with Debian.
After all, you can keep a central store of the software that you need, update it as necessary and have a cron job of apt-get running on each machine. Keep the software syncronized on every machine to a set standard ( with optional bits and pieces of course ). An install would be an easy matter of booting a floppy on the target machine.
Of course, this from someone who is for the first time getting a real handle on Debian ... *so* different from OpenBSD, but nice all the same :)
Oh well, I wonder if it'll be like the 2.2 release, where 2.2.1 thru 2.2.5 were released in the course of a week ... I highly doubt it, but the thought makes me feel better :)
There was a link last year ( I believe? ) to another tough notebook, from a major supplier ( samsung? Toshiba? Bah, I'm getting senile ).
In comparison this is a home workshop project. Sure it's waterproof / resistant, impact resistant, etc, but is it USABLE?
A laptop / notebook has to be , above all, portable and usable. This thing is WAY too big and heavy. Besides, it looks as though it loses most of it's benefit if it's open / being used.
Now if they were releasing plans for doing this to your OWN notebook I'd be all for it. But $4500USD? That's a bit much for a product with no big-name backing. You have to just trust that it works and that the company will be around in 3 months to complain to when it fails.
I'll stop ranting now :)
According to gnu.org, grub is still alpha quality software, not recommended for production systems.
Wasn't RedHat recently raked over the coals for including alpha-quality software in it's distribution? To my mind at least, this isn't much different.
As for the others, I'm gonna check out XOSL ... not that lilo isn't working for me, but I've just gotta play with stuff until it breaks ...
The entire POINT of this exercise is that it's a BAD IDEA!
A referendum would / will cost $150 million to the Canadian Taxpayer, and in the words of Rick Mercer ( the comedian who came up with the idea ), "Any idiot could get a referendum on his pet issue. I'm just the first idiot."
This is an initial protest to an election promise which, on the face of it, seems quite enlightened and democratic, but which is in fact just a bad idea.
( besides, these are the same guys who convinced the Governor of Iowa that Canada was using a metric 20 hour day, and had him congratulate Canada on "switching to a USA - style 24 hour day" on the air! They tend to be a little over the top, but hey, it's politics! )
After all, you don't expect your laptop to have a 19" screen? Four speaker Dolby (tm) surround sound? In a laptop, you want it to be light, easy to carry, fast *enough* and to have *enough* battery life for your needs.
As has been said in previous articles, many people would be THRILLED with a Pentium 200 based laptop, if only it would have a reasonable battery life. The Crusoe chips appear to give FAR better performance than that, with lower power usage ( gotta love intigrated memory controllers! ).
Who REALLY needs a P-III Coppermine 800 in their laptop? And if you do, don't bitch about battery life, you're getting other benefits.
Celerons DO support smp, it's just that Intel had disabled the feature with some jiggery-foolery. A hack to re-enable it started the move to SMP celerons.
To where now slotket adapters now include circuitry to do the workaround for you.
I don't have anything to say on the subject, but am interested in the effect of non-moderated comments on my karma ... does my +1 for registered user count as a +1 moderation? Let's find out, shall we?